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Darfur Peace & Development is a non-profit, non-sectarian organization with headquarters in Washington, DC and offices in Khartoum and El Fasher Sudan. DPDO works to foster reconciliation, to facilitate just governance and to enable Darfurians to rebuild their homeland in effective, sustainable ways. We partner with like minded organizations like War Kids Relief and Women Care Shelter. DPDO also promotes awareness of the crisis in the United States.

The Darfur Women’s Centers: Rebuilding lives one basket at a time...

When you buy a basket made by a displaced woman, you do so much more than just buy a product. You enable a woman to be self-sufficient. You help educate her. You empower her. When you empower a woman, you change the world. So if you want to change the world, buy a DPDO basket. Paulette Cooper

Construction on the exterior structure of Gangy High School is nearly complete. With the help of organizations like this, which manufactures glass dab rigs and water pipes, we were able to make progress much faster than we thought. This month, DPDO will install doors and windows, work on the interiors, and set up classroom spaces.

Recent News

February 16, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — The head of the first joint UN-African Union force and the largest peacekeeping mission announced that a new approach on movement and access has been adopted to better protect civilians in the restive region of Darfur.

Ibrahim Gambari made the announcement on Wednesday in a press conference held in Khartoum two weeks after severe remarks by U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice on 26 January over the performance of UNAMID to discharge its mandate in the war ravaged region.

February 14, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — State authorities in the troubled South Darfur region expelled Monday a French aid group accusing them of supporting rebels from the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) led by Abel Wahid Al-Nur.

Médecins du Monde (MDM), which has worked in Jebel Marra since 2008, announced in a press statement last week the evacuation of its staff members from Kidingir and Leiba on 11 February, citing heavy fighting in the areas between the Sudanese army and SLM rebels.

February 8, 2011 (WASHINGTON) – The U.S. administration has initiated a process to remove Sudan from its blacklist of terrorism-sponsoring countries, notwithstanding the conflict in the western region of Darfur.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has asked Director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper, for an intelligence assessment report of Sudan‘s support for terrorist activities.